`What we have asked them to do'.Byline: Craig S. Semon PRINCETON - "War and Peace: A photo exhibit by Roger Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. ," featuring 66 striking images captured in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2004 to 2008, will be showcased during an artist's reception and exhibition this weekend. "The images show the soldiers and Marines, Iraqis and Afghans, the quick and the dead," Leo said. An artist's reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow and the exhibition will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Princeton Arts Society, 18 Boylston Ave. Leo took his frontline front·line also front line n. 1. A front or boundary, especially one between military, political, or ideological positions. 2. Basketball See frontcourt. 3. Football The linemen of a team. photos during two periods of being embedded with a cavalry battalion in the al-Dora section of Baghdad, and another two with Marines, first in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush Hindu Kush (hĭn`d  k sh), a high mountain system, extending c. region and then
in Iraq's Anbar province.
In addition, some of Leo's photos were taken during a trip to Afghanistan last year, in which he traveled with Afghans from Kabul to Mazar-i-Sharif in the north. A few photos are from the return of the cavalry battalion to Fort Hood Fort Hood, U.S. army post, 209,000 acres (84,580 hectares), central Tex., near Killeen; est. 1942 on the site of old Fort Gates and named for Confederate Gen. John Hood. It is one of the army's largest installations and a major employer of the area. in Texas, and from the wedding of the leader of a mortar platoon at West Point. "It became important to me to show them, since they captured, to the best of my ability, the experience of so many of our young men and women who are there carrying out the nation's will," Leo said. "I'm not sure how many Americans realize what we have asked them to do. I hope the photos also show something of two very different societies, Iraq and Afghanistan, now in the fifth and eighth years of war." Leo worked at the Telegram & Gazette for 34 years, leaving in 2005, and continued to write and photograph from his home on the side of Mount Wachusett This article is about the geological mountain. For information regarding the ski area, see Wachusett Mountain. Mount Wachusett is located in the towns of Princeton and Westminster in Worcester County of Massachusetts. in Princeton. Leo shot his first photos from Iraq on film but did subsequent shooting with digital cameras, so that images could be sent home the same day, via the Internet. "Vietnam was the `television war' and Iraq and Afghanistan are the `Internet wars' with instant posting of almost everything," Leo said. ART: PHOTO CUTLINE: Photo of soldiers in Iraq by Roger Leo will be among those shown at an artist's reception tomorrow and also on Saturday at the Princeton Arts Society. |
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